Latest Update from Fiona

Hello all

I know that you have been eagerly awaiting information about your teams – I am so sorry this took a while but some people have dropped out, others have asked to join at the eleventh hour and some forms were delayed – and I really didn’t want to do the logistics twice!!

We originally said that we would put 5 teams in but we have very nearly enough people for 10 – Shelterbox have swallowed hard and said yes to 10 (it affects their logistics too but then they remembered the money!) which means that we will raise –as an absolute minimum - £10,000 for Shelterbox.

This means 20 boxes – or more importantly 200 people provided with shelter and a means to cook during a disaster – I think that is amazing and I know that with a bit of effort we can really top that figure. One person has already raised in excess of £800 so the gauntlet has been well and truly thrown down.

It also means that we need to recruit more facilitators but we’re onto it.

The teams are:

Team 1 (Martin to facilitate) - Michele Perks, Antje Pinkney & Rik Bennett

Team 2 (James to facilitate) - Jess Bartlett, Sarah Howard & Nigel Barker

Team 3 (Fiona to facilitate) - Sarah Trethowan, Sally Heard & Nicola Moule

Team 4 (Facilitator TBA) - Stafford Sumner, Joss Price, plus one other TBA

Team 5 (Facilitator TBA) - Melissa Meade, Caroline Williams plus one other TBA

Teams 6 & 7 Derriford x2 (Nik & Rob to facilitate) - Andy McMinn, Andrew Gordon, Chris Stevens, Donna Pavey, Aaron Boylan & Luke (? No form yet).

Team 8 Atkins Ferrie (no facilitator) - Jenny Bickerstaff, Joanna Wilkinson-Horton, Maria Lee-Small & Kate Hutchins.

Team 9 Grow Cornwall (no facilitator) - Laurence MacRory, Andrew Farmer & Andrew Finley (plus one other TBC).

Team 10 Harry’s Team (no facilitator) - Harry Hart, Graham Donaldson, Simon Bealey & Matthew Buchan.

Any problems with this please let us know and we will try to resolve them. You can get an email address for the people in your team from the group above but please do not use this information for any other purpose without permission. If you are using your work email address please make sure no one ends up on your general database without agreeing first.

On a separate note, as well as fundraising evolution are donating 24 days of time to this endeavour and you are each receiving free leadership and team development for which we normally charge a nice shiny fee. On that basis please could you make sure that you mention evolution as well as Shelterbox in all your fundraising and publicity materials / social media groups etc. Thank you.

Martin and I have set up a joint Just Giving page if you want to take a look – www.justgiving.com/martin-crump and the official evolution/Shelterbox Facebook Page will appear soon.

Details about the next walk will appear in the next day or two. Please try really hard to turn up to these events – this first one is where you will work and bond with your team mates so it is important.

Finally, Martin and I are off to Peru for a couple of weeks from 1st April to 19th so will be out of touch. If there is anything urgent please contact one of the other facilitators – failing that we’ll collect emails on our return.

I, for one, am really looking forward to getting out in the fresh air with you all. See you on 24th April.

Fiona x

Meeting Report

We have now had the first two meetings – somewhat disconcertingly many of the faces at the last meeting were different to those on the first night but I guess that’s going to happen.

At the last meeting we started to look at fitness, kit and fundraising which was a phenomenal amount of information in three hours and we're afraid you all looked a bit shell-shocked by the end!

However, as promised we have circulated:

• James’ wonderful fitness booklet.
• Some info on Kit – please notice the fantastic offer from World of Camping.
• A brief introduction to fundraising.

If you have any problems opening these docs please let Fiona know and she will send them in an earlier version of Word or as a hard copy.

Get Registered!
We know that you are all keen to know who your teams are and we are keen to tell you but we still haven’t had all the forms back so weI will let you know as soon as we possibly can – hopefully by the end of the week.

We know that you are keen to plan walks and start fund raising. If you haven’t completed your forms Fiona will contact you separately – please get them back to her ASAP so that we can get going with training etc.

Next Event
For those who didn’t receive it the schedule for the rest of the year is detailed below. The next event is a 5 mile walk on 24th April – details to follow regarding times and location etc. We will encourage you to share lifts so will email out before hand to set something up.

Contact details for the facilitators are as follows:
NB Replace ' at ' in the email adresses with '@ '

Martin Crump
martin at evolution-development.com
01872 555939

Fiona Crump
fiona at evolution-development.com
01872 555939

Nik Green
nik at evolution-development.com

James Hampton
james.hampton at cornwall.ac.uk

Rob Green
robert at inspiringholidays.com